The game is Andy Robertson’s final one in a Liverpool shirt. The first goal of his career in English football came against Brentford, for Hull City in a 2-0 win at Griffin Park.
Virgil van Dijk has completed 90 minutes in 74 of Liverpool’s 75 Premier League matches under Slot, including all 37 games this season. If he plays 90 minutes here, aged 34 years and 320 days, he would be the oldest outfield player ever to complete 100 per cent of possible minutes in a Premier League campaign, beating John Terry’s record in 2014-15 (34 years and 168 days).
Van Dijk has been on the pitch for 4,851 minutes in all competitions this season – the most by any Liverpool outfield player in a season since Sami Hyypia (5,205) in 2005-06.
The Reds have not lost their final league game in any of the last 10 seasons (won seven, drew three) since a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City in 2014-15. When finishing a league campaign at home, they are unbeaten in 18 (won 15, drew three) since a 2-0 loss to Arsenal in 1988-89.
Brentford have won just one of their last nine Premier League matches (drew six, lost two), beating West Ham United 3-0 earlier this month.
The Bees have won their final game in just one of their four previous Premier League campaigns (drew one, lost two), beating Manchester City 1-0 in 2022-23.
Between 1936 and 1937, Brentford were unbeaten in their first three away league contests against Liverpool (won one, drew two). Since then, they have lost each of their last six trips to Anfield without scoring a single goal.
Igor Thiago has scored 41 per cent of Brentford’s Premier League goals this season (22/54) – currently the highest share by a player in a single campaign since Harry Kane in 2022-23 (43 per cent for Tottenham Hotspur – 30/70).
Keith Andrews, who succeeded Thomas Frank as the Bees’ head coach last summer, faced Liverpool five times as a player, scoring once, in a 2-1 defeat for Blackburn Rovers in February 2010.
Brentford are on course for their highest finish in the Premier League. This is their fifth campaign and they have finished 13th, ninth, 16th and 10th since gaining their status in 2021.
